Keith Urban and Vince Gill will co-host an all-star concert Tuesday to raise money for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Others confirmed to perform at Nashville's...
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Keith Urban's contribution to the iTunes Originals series features interview segments and new, live-in-studio recordings of six songs -- including three from his latest...
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Keith Urban understands that paparazzi come along with the fame, but he draws a line when it comes to his infant daughter. "I'm as protective of my family as any father and...
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If you want to sit in the really good seats for a Keith Urban concert this summer, a pair of tickets will put you about back about $170. But in a nod to the tough economic...
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No disrespect to Kelly Preston, but it looks like Nicole Kidman married the real Urban Cowboy. Fresh off last weekend's win at the Academy of Country Music Awards,...
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Don't let the 10-gallon hats and odd odes to tractors fool you—the 44th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards knew how to keep it real. From erstwhile...
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Keith Urban had a special guest during his rehearsal yesterday for tonight's Academy of Country Music Awards. We spotted his wife, Nicole Kidman, watching from the...
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It's hard to imagine Keith Urban choosing a more appropriate title for his fifth studio album, "Defying Gravity." He says it signifies the power of the spirit to overcome...
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Country music star Keith Urban performed a surprise two-song set for reporters to kick off his day at the Daytona 500, where he was the featured artist for Sunday's pre-race...
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Biggest Yawn: Maybe the song just hasn't clicked yet, but U2's rousing "Get On Your Boots" didn't seem to fire up the crowd as much as you'd think it...
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The stock market is in the tank, the plant is closing and the neighbor is losing his home ... the perfect time to go to a concert, by one measure. The concert business...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Usher, Keith Urban and Natasha Bedingfield are kicking off the NFL season with a free concert that's expected to draw thousands to Manhattan's Columbus...
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Nashville's recent Urban development is making at least two residents very happy. New proud papa Keith Urban has posted a message on his site, saying he and wife Nicole...
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As with most new parents, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban might have difficulty telling what day it is. No matter. From here on out, they'll have a little Sunday every day. ...
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Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban are expecting their first child together.
The news was announced Monday by Kidman's publicist, Catherine Olim. It was also posted on Urban's...
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There's a tried-and-true adage in
Nashville that it all begins with a song. In the case of new
Capitol Records Nashville trio Lady Antebellum, it began...
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This is gonna be a big one, y'all.
Two of country music's most popular acts, Carrie Underwood and Keith Urban, have announced plans to coheadline what's sure to...
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Bobby Brown ... country
superstar?
The R&B singer is one of several celebrities set to compete
in a new CMT series designed to give one of them a chance to
break out as the...
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Like any good star, Keith Urban knows from delegating responsibility—or, in this case, blame.
Nicole Kidman's mister was involved in a slight motorcycle accident...
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Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman may be selling their Nashville home, but they're not moving far.
The couple has purchased land in Music City in order to build a farm,...
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The clock on Rascal Flatts' Web
site counts down the days, hours, minutes and even seconds
until the September 25 release of the superstar band's fifth
studio album,...
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As flip-flops hit the pavement and barbecue grills ignite, some of the biggest artists are packing their bags to get the summer concert season started.
This year, everyone...
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It doesn't take a second for David Kells to recall the first concert he ever saw: Aerosmith with Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Starwood Amphitheater, 1990.
Over the next...
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Ticketmaster's purchase of a
majority stake in echomusic, a Nashville-based Web
entertainment marketing company, gives the ticketing giant an
important new presence in...
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Following is the list of nominees for the 42nd Annual Academy of Country Music Awards announced Monday in Nashville. The awards will be presented May 15 in Las...
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Country singer Keith Urban paid
tribute to his wife, Australian actress Nicole Kidman, on
Friday for the support she gave him as he was treated for
alcohol dependency last...
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Keith Urban may be starting to sound like a broken record, but in the best possible way.
The country superstar appeared on the Today show Thursday to talk shop about his...
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For all you art aficionados, the canvases Al Bundy for President and Dennis the Mennis were not painted by, or endorsed by, Keith Lionel Urban the country music star....
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Keith Urban, the country singer, has filed a lawsuit against Keith Urban, the painter from New Jersey, claiming the painter's Web site violates federal trademark laws.
The...
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Keith Urban will launch the North American leg of his world tour June 8 in Phoenix, marking his return to U.S. concert stages after undergoing treatment for alcohol...
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Keith Urban praised his wife, Nicole Kidman, and thanked his fans for their support during his three-month stay at a rehab center for alcohol abuse treatment, in a video...
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Keith Urban's not waiting until his next songwriting session to tell fans about his hard-knock year. Instead, the country superstar has taken his story directly to the...
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After three months and 12 steps, Keith Urban is out of rehab.
Nicole Kidman's country-singing spouse has completed a stint at the Betty Ford Center in Palm Springs,...
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We know that the Rolling Stones,
Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw/Faith Hill and Dave Matthews Band
will sell the heck out of tickets in 2007.
But there is always a dark horse...
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A spokesman for Keith Urban denied media reports Wednesday that the Australian-reared country singer had completed treatment for alcohol abuse.
In response to a query by...
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Nicole Kidman undoubtedly has many things for which to be thankful this year, but spending the holidays with her husband, Keith Urban, is likely high on the list.
The...
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Here's the complete list of nominees for the 49th Annual Grammy Awards. The awards will be presented Feb. 11 in Los Angeles:
Album Of The Year
Taking the Long Way,...
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Maybe he should retire more often.
Lest anyone think his star power faded during his two-year recording hiatus, Jay-Z celebrated his rap comeback by topping one of the...
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The charts got Game...and vice versa.
The erstwhile Dr. Dre and 50 Cent protégé scored big as his latest solo outing, Doctor's Advocate, debuted at number...
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Pop diva Mariah Carey, whose
commercial success has not translated into awards show acclaim,
was snubbed at the American Music Awards on Tuesday, despite
scoring three...
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Now that's what I call a stampede.
With the Country Music Association Awards airing last week, the latest pop chart was supposed to be a Nashville-happy affair. Instead,...
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It's hard to believe how many times Brooks & Dunn have won Duo of the Year at the Country Music Association Awards.
The Hillbilly Deluxe artists, who also hosted the...
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Keith Urban, "Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing" (Capitol): So far, Keith Urban shows no signs of running out of exhilarating ways to declare life is grand, or finding...
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Country superstar Keith Urban has released a statement announcing that he voluntarily admitted himself to a rehabilitation center last night (Thursday, October 19), with his...
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For more than a dozen artists, nominations for the American Music Awards came in twos and threes.
Mariah Carey, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Black Eyed Peas and...
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Years ago, conductors with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra would get hot under the collar when they'd arrive for rehearsal and find their best string players missing, holed...
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Brooks & Dunn and Brad Paisley were both nominated for six Country Music Association Awards, but Ronnie Dunn emerged as the leader with seven nominations, including one for...
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Nominees for the 40th annual Country Music Association Awards, to be held Nov. 6 in Nashville, Tenn:
Entertainer of the year: Brooks & Dunn, Kenny Chesney, Brad Paisley,...
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Stick a fork in the CMA Award nominations--they're Dunn.
Brooks & Dunn and solo crooner Brad Paisley racked up six
nominations apiece for the Country Music Association...
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You may have seen the recent photos
of Bob Dylan looking uncannily like Charlie Chaplin, and his
44th album, "Modern Times," shares a title with Chaplin's 1936
classic about...
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Before Hurricane Katrina hit, Tanio
Hingle lived in a house in the Treme section of New Orleans
with his wife and three kids, gigging around town with the New
Birth Brass...
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It's 9 p.m. at The Gig
in Hollywood and a crowd of L.A. hipsters is trickling in to
catch the evening's act.
The bar itself is just one of several live music...
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Nicole Kidman was "overwhelmed" by the goodwill lavished upon her during her weekend nuptials at home in Australia, her publicist said, as the newlyweds reportedly began...
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Nicole Kidman has officially beaten Tom Cruise back to the altar.
Culminating a week in which their every move and wedding detail was excrutiatingly chronicled in the...
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Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman and
fiance Keith Urban used a very Australian gift to soothe the
paparazzi camped outside her Sydney home on Tuesday ahead of
their...
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Nicole Kidman and fiance Keith Urban came home to Australia on Monday to be married, they said in a joint statement.
"We are very happy to be back in Australia," they...
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Nicole Kidman's Aussie fiancé, Keith Urban, is country music's sexiest man, according to a reader poll to be released Friday in Country Weekly.
Readers picked their top 10...
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are running down a few
thousand Hells Angels.
The Rock and Roll Hall of
Famers are revving up to headline the inaugural Rock'n the...
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are slated to join Keith Urban, the Black Crowes, Big & Rich and Nickelback at Rock 'n the Valley, a five-day music festival to be held this...
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Take 600,000 people, tens of
thousands of motorcycles, more beer and barbecue than anyone
can imagine ... and add music.
The biggest motorcycle enthusiast gathering in the...
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Folk singer Ani DiFranco, who stopped performing for almost a year due to tendinitis in her wrists, will make her comeback Friday at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage...
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Nicole's man done good.
Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood and
Brad Paisley were among the big winners of the CMT Awards Monday night,
with the American Idol alum managing...
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Wanted: Hispanic country music star
who can sell millions of records to Spanish- and
English-speaking fans.
"All we need is a hero, somebody the Hispanic community
would...
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CMT voters gotta have Faith. And Carrie. And, uh, Reese?
Faith Hill nabbed a leading four nominations for the 2006 CMT
Awards, the country music video kudosfest voted on...
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The Boss is heading to New Orleans.
A performance by Bruce Springsteen is one of 35 added to the lineup for this year's New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, scheduled...
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The Boss is coming to New Orleans. A performance by Bruce Springsteen is one of 35 added to the lineup for this year's New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, scheduled over...
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Brad Paisley would like to thank the Academy. The other one.
The Time Well Wasted singer received a leading six
nominations for the Academy of Country Music Awards,...
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This just might be the role actor John Corbett was born to play.
Known for playing the handsome non-Greek boyfriend in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," the philosophical radio...
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Let the Good Times Roll!
Vowing to gather the biggest names in music to celebrate
New Orleans, organizers of Jazz Fest on Wednesday unveiled an
eclectic line-up with the...
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The Grammy Awards will open with a meeting of the Material Girl and the virtual world.
Madonna and the Gorillaz will perform together for the first time at the 48th Annual...
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Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman's widely speculated romance has reportedly taken a turn for the worse. According to Britain's The Mail, Kidman recently broke off her...
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Singer/songwriter Fiona Apple and
Montreal rock band Arcade Fire are among the finalists for the
inaugural New Pantheon Awards, which continue the mission of
the defunct...
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The emancipation of Mariah
Carey from all things that
Glitter seems
complete.
The songbird soared with eight
Grammy nominations
Thursday, including an Album of the...
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It's late morning and the guys from Cross Canadian Ragweed are beat.
Cody Canada drifts into the coffee shop a few minutes late and plops down beside bandmates Grady Cross...
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As is her wont, Madonna will be stuffing plenty of stockings this
holiday season.
The Material Girl scored her third
consecutive chart-topper with Confessions on a...
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The Shortlist Music Prize appears
to have come to an end. Artist manager and Shortlist co-founder
Tom Sarig is planning a like-minded new award for next year.
Sarig and...
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Lee Ann Womack may not hate herself this morning.
The
country songbird picked up a trio of trophies at the CMA Awards Tuesday
night, including Album of the Year for...
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Although the CMA Awards' first soiree in New York will be peppered with cameos by Elton John, Billy Joel, Donald Trump, James Gandolfini and Bon Jovi, don't expect...
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The Country Music Association awards will be handed out tonight, but not in Nashville.
They'll be presented at Madison Square Garden in New York City, which doesn't even...
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Lindsay Lohan, Hilary Duff and Sheryl Crow have been added to the lineup of performers for the "2005 American Music Awards."
The 33rd annual special will air live from the...
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In their home base of Texas,
country rockers Cross Canadian Ragweed are superstars.
With a hectic touring schedule consisting of more than 250
dates annually, it's just a...
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Plans for a benefit concert intended to help victims of Hurricane
Katrina have been blown off, courtesy of the rapidly approaching
Hurricane Rita.
With the Category 5...
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The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week's ranking is...
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Green Day's latest album, "American
Idiot" has been certified quadruple platinum for U.S. shipments
in excess of 4 million copies by the Recording Industry
Association of...
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A tip of the ten-gallon hat to Brad Paisley and Lee Ann Womack.
The country crooners wrangled themselves six nominations
apiece to lead this year's contenders for the...
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Celebrities including Ellen DeGeneres, Jay Leno, Master P and Dave Matthews are contributing star power to relief efforts for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
DeGeneres, a...
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Three Louisiana-born stars -- Harry Connick Jr., Wynton Marsalis and Tim McGraw -- will headline a
televised charity concert to air live on Friday for victims of
Hurricane...
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During the second half of his career, singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell has taken the words of Artie Shaw and Jack Nicholson to heart.
Crowell took a six-year hiatus to...
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A two-hour special featuring highlights from this year's Country Music Association festival will air on prime-time TV this week, with performances by Alan Jackson, Rascal...
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The Gap is filling up with a new batch of music stars.
Alanis Morissette, Jason Mraz, Joss Stone, John Legend, Liz Phair, Keith Urban, Destiny's Child's Michelle...
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With a solid musical career already under his belt, Keith Urban is on track to star in his first feature film. The singer is already linked up with Paramount Pictures and...
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They started by predicting a riot, but instead there was brotherly love at the U.S. version of the global Live 8 extravaganza.
"Right now you're watching the biggest...
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The full lineup for Live 8 in Philadelphia:
Black Eyed Peas, Bon Jovi, the Dave Matthews Band, Def Leppard, Destiny's Child, Jars of Clay, Jay-Z, Kaiser Chiefs, Toby...
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Alicia Keys, the Black Eyed Peas, Josh Groban, Def Leppard and Toby Keith have been added to the lineup of Saturday's Live 8 concert in Philadelphia.
Celebrity presenters...
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Coming up at Tuesday’s (May 17) 40th Annual Academy Of Country Music Awards, Australia's Keith Urban is up for honors in the category of Entertainer Of The Year, Best Male...
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The nominees for the 2005 CMT Music Awards, which will be broadcast live 8 p.m. Eastern time April 11:
Male video: Keith Urban, "Days Go By"; Kenny Chesney, "I Go Back";...
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Music videos by newcomers Big & Rich and Gretchen Wilson were among the leading nominees for the 2005 CMT Music Awards announced Wednesday.
The video for Big & Rich's song...
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The third chart entry proves to
be the charm for Mario, who rises to a new career peak on the
Billboard Hot 100 with "Let Me Love You" (3rd Street/J). The
single moves 3-2,...
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Snoop Dogg was too hot to drop
from the top of Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart Thursday as
his hit tune "Drop It Like It's Hot" featuring Pharrell logged
a third week at...
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The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week's ranking is...
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Of all the acts that have become
prominent figures in the contemporary worship movement, the
Newsboys' impact might be the most surprising.
The band has come a long way...
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Country artists need to try harder
when it comes to international markets, according to talent
executive Bruce Allen.
During a recent keynote speech at the Country Music...
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Last summer, country music's hottest act, the Dixie Chicks , was in a meltdown. Country CD sales were sliding and record executives were praying for a spate of holiday...
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At 65, Kenny Rogers ' familiar voice is raspier than it was 25 years ago on such hits as "She Believes in Me" and "Coward of the County."
But with his snowy white hair and...
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Country Music Television's list of the 100 greatest love songs:
1. "I Will Always Love You" (Dolly Parton )
2. "You Were Always On My Mind" (Willie Nelson )
3. "Sweet...
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Kenny Chesney may be country's
reigning king of leisure, but when it comes to touring he is
big business.
As the summer amphitheater leg of Chesney's Guitars, Tiki
Bars &...
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"It feels like the joker overthrew
the kingdom," Toby Keith commented backstage after winning the
entertainer of the year award at the 39th annual Academy of
Country Music...
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Toby Keith took home three awards Wednesday in Country Music Television's Flameworthy Video Music Awards show, including video of the year for his patriotic song "American...
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When Alan Jackson sang "Gone Country" several years ago, everybody thought it was a satire. But it's getting more real every day. The Tennessean reports Poison lead singer...
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Toby Keith received a leading four nominations for Country Music Television's Flameworthy Video Music Awards, while Kenny Chesney , Rascal Flatts and Alan Jackson picked...
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What was Dierks Bentley thinkin'? The artist whose debut single was "What Was I Thinkin'?" is looking at surgery next Monday because he took a leap of faith — and...
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Georgia-born singer Alan Jackson ,
who shared a recent hit with Jimmy Buffett on the duet "It's
Five O'Clock Somewhere," led the field of contenders for the
Academy of...
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List of key nominations announced Wednesday for the 39th annual Academy of Country Music Awards:
1. Entertainer of the Year: Brooks & Dunn, Kenny Chesney , Alan Jackson ,...
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Alan Jackson , who received a leading eight Academy of Country Music nominations Wednesday, can justify celebrating as early as he wants because — as the title of his...
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Alan Jackson can justify celebrating his leading eight Academy of Country Music nominations on Wednesday as early as he wants, because — as the title of his hit song...
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Sting, Dave Matthews, Vince Gill and
the Neptunes' Pharrell Williams have signed on for a Grammy
tribute to the 40th anniversary of the Beatles' first U.S.
television...
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LeAnn Rimes and Wynonna are among the stars expected to perform when the Country Music Association Music Festival, formerly known as Fan Fair, returns June 10-13 to...
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On January 23rd, 1958, Brunswick Records released "Maybe Baby" backed with "Tell Me How" by The Crickets.
In 1970, singer Judy Collins was denied permission to sing her...
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Kenny Chesney knows how to keep from feeling a comedown, after touring with Keith Urban and Dierks Bentley. They'll accompany the first leg of his "Guitars, Tiki Bars and...
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If there was ever any doubt about
Shania Twain 's career prospects after the Canadian songbird
took time off to start a family, the success of her album "Up!"
and current...
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Ashanti, Metallica and Puddle Of
Mudd are among the acts set to perform on New Year's Eve for
Fox's "America's Party" celebration.
Also featuring Hootie & the Blowfish,...
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After a three-year run with the
production-heavy Neon Circus & Wild West Show, Brooks & Dunn
will scale back considerably in 2004 with the Red Dirt Road
tour.
The move is...
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Jo Dee Messina, Rascal Flatts, LeAnn Rimes, and Keith Urban have been confirmed as presenters for the upcoming 31st Annual American Music Awards, which will take place in...
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Keith Urban is celebrating the success of his very first platinum-selling album, Golden Road. The project, which was released last year, has sold over a million copies and...
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Keith Urban and Darryl Worley are the latest additions to the ever-growing list of performers on next week's Academy Of Country Music Awards. Urban will sing his current...
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Keith Urban has incorporated a salute to the U.S. and Australian troops fighting in Iraq in the way of a cover song. During his most recent shows, Urban has performed the...
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Keith Urban returned to the road this weekend after six weeks of doctor-ordered voice rest, which he says was caused by a polyp he had on one of his vocal cords for...
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News of the recent cancellation of Carolyn Dawn Johnson's co-headlining Canadian tour with Keith Urban was disappointing for Johnson, a native of Canada. The singer is more...
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Keith Urban has been ordered to rest his voice for the next six weeks by doctors at the Vanderbilt Voice Clinic in Nashville. The singer has been suffering with a vocal cord...
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Keith Urban was forced to cancel three scheduled national television show appearances this week after a doctor put him on voice rest. The singer is suffering from a sudden...
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Keith Urban's current single, "Raining On Sunday," was co-written by fellow singer/songwriter Radney Foster. Urban discovered the song while preparing to record his current...
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Keith Urban's smash hit single, "Somebody Like You," from his new album Golden Road, has held the Number One position for seven weeks on Radio & Records' Country Singles...
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Keith Urban recently celebrated his 35th birthday on October 26 onstage in Vacaville, California. Urban was in the midst of playing his guitar when suddenly no sound was...
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When Keith Urban was making his new album, Golden Road, the singer wasn't going through a great period in his life and wasn't all that happy. So, one would expect that the...
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Keith Urban's latest single, "Somebody Like You," has jumped three slots to take the Number One spot on Billboard's Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart this week. Urban...
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Keith Urban's new single, "Somebody Like You," is an "idealistic song of the type of partner that I'm looking for and haven't found yet," according to the single singer....
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Keith Urban is working on his forthcoming album that will feature his new single, "Somebody Like You," which sits at Number 22 this week on Billboard's Hot Country Singles &...
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While in Memphis, Tennessee taking part in the "Country Cares For St. Jude's Kids" event earlier this month, Keith Urban was recognized by a group of Auburn University...
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Keith Urban celebrated his first gold-selling (sales of 500,000 copies) album on Thursday (June 21) night in Nashville. His self-titled debut album has been winning critical...
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A stunned Keith Urban snagged the top new male vocalist award Wednesday (May 9) night at the ACM Awards in Los Angeles from fellow nominees Billy Gilman and Phil Vassar....
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Keith Urban's debut solo album has just been certified gold, selling in excess of 500,000 copies. Urban, who wrote or co-wrote nine of the album's 12 songs, talked with...
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Keith Urban's new single, "Where The Blacktop Ends" works in perfectly to his latest venture as an opening act on the upcoming Brooks & Dunn Neon Circus And Wild West Show...
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Keith Urban celebrated the success of his Number One country song, "But For The Grace Of God" Wednesday (March 14) in Nashville, along with the song's co-writers, Charlotte...
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The Go-Go's Charlotte Caffey and Jane Wiedlin co-wrote "But For The Grace Of God" with Keith Urban, which is holding at Number Three on the BillboardHot Country singles...
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While pop success has been plentiful, Go-Go's members Jane Wiedlin and Charlotte Caffey can now claim bragging rights to the top of the Billboard Hot Country Singles &...
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Keith Urban was at home in Nashville Wednesday (January 3) when he learned of his first Grammy nomination. The singer/musician was nominated in the best country...
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Fans are responding quite loudly to rising country star Keith Urban's appearance at Fan Fair this week. Every time the singer shows up to meet fans and sign autographs, he...
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While writing for his current self-titled album, Keith Urban had the opportunity to collaborate with members of '80s all-girl band the The Go-Go's, Jane Wiedlin and...
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The making of Keith Urban's first American solo project was a painful yet therapeutic process for the singer. According to Urban, he always wanted to be only a co-writer...
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Rising country star Keith Urban has already received some pretty incredible opportunities to work with today's biggest-selling country acts. He was invited to play guitar...
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